This is L'il Wayne, Birdman and Mark Cuban celebrating the Mavericks NBA Championshop in Miami last night. If we don't want to see a similar scene featuring Tom Cochrane, The Odds and Ryan Kesler somewhere in Boston tonight, the Bruins are going to need to step up to the plate.

KARMA IS BEING KIND (SO FAR)

Believers in sports karma are quite content today in the wake of Lebron, Bosh, Wade and Co losing to the veteran laced Mavericks. Even if you don't care about basketball in the least - and really who can blame you - you should be able to identify douchebags by sight and appreciate the fact that a bunch of players that deserved the Championship beat out a bunch of nerds who didn't.

It translates well into tonight's game if you ask us.

Watching the tens of thousands of Canucks fans partying in the streets of Vancouver after the Game 5 win and remembering the ghost town that was the Game 3 and Game 4 aftermath - we can't help but grind our teeth and hope for the Bruins to pull out a win at home tonight followed by another win in G7.

Vancouver cannot win the Stanley Cup. Not like this, not with this collection of easily hateable players. Tim Thomas cannot be denied. The Zombie Chara cannot be denied. Even Tyler Seguin's ratty tribute to Colonial England Beard Stylings cannot be denied.

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Image courtesy of Allan M who sent it to WanyeMail recently. Secondary bigups to Eddie Gladstone who asked that this exact picture be made and put on the site. Also - if you are on the Twitters and enjoy this type of highbrow humour, there is going to be a sass talking extravaganza tonight you can be sure.

Sorry but Van canucks will win if not tonight, for sure the 7th game... I am an Oilers fan first but not like most of Canada, I have nothing against Vancouver Canucks as winners. They are a better team in regular season and they will be in the finals.

Todd is the typical Vancouver fan. When they have all the calls going their way (legitimate or not doesnt seem to matter) they say "the refs are doing great" but when the calls arent in their favour (again, legitimate or not doesnt make a difference) they are all up in arms. If i was the refs i would be against vancouver with all their whining and diving.

BTW I wonder if fans in vancouver were "cheering for Schnieder" again.... ha

I really don't understand what Vigneault was thinking last night. On Boston's second shot just 5 minutes in, Luongo allows a snap shot that's high-short side. It was a bad goal; Luongo had a clear view and there's no excuse for letting that float by his shoulder. Nonetheless, I understand that sometimes you just accept that life is hard, grit your teeth, and move on. Just three shots and 30 seconds later, though, a soft wrister trickles through his five-hole. He needed to stop that too.

Right then, right at that moment, Vigneault needed to recognize something. Luongo has been completely shelled his last two games in Boston. He's now back there and he's allowed two soft goals on five shots. His confidence is somewhere between badly F'd up and nonexistent. As a coach, you need to get Luongo out of the net right then.

You can argue that pulling Luongo at that point might have been a big confidence-kill in and of itself. I don't care. Down two goals early in the game, you still have a chance to come back and win the Stanley Cup that night. If that happens, Luongo's confidence or lack thereof won't matter a damn; he can find it again in the off-season. Even if you lose, Luongo can chalk it up to demons in Boston and come home and pitch another shutout in Vancouver. Whatever you decide, there is no way anyone should have realistically been thinking at that point that Luongo was going to buckle down, exorcize his demons, and stop all the pucks for the rest of the night.

By the time Vigneault belatedly figured that out two-and-a-half minutes later, the damage was done. Down 3-0, I think most of the Vancouver team decided that history was going to repeat and had mentally checked out. They were already gearing up for Game 7 in Vancouver at that point, not gearing up to finish things in Game 6.

That one single decision - to keep Luongo in net after the second goal - I think that could well have cost Vancouver the game. It's yet to be seen if it might also have cost them the Cup.

Sorry but Van canucks will win if not tonight, for sure the 7th game... I am an Oilers fan first but not like most of Canada, I have nothing against Vancouver Canucks as winners. They are a better team in regular season and they will be in the finals.

Wanye knows. Understand this now and forever, O nuckleheaded ones. Dickishness will not go unpunished in the sporting universe. Wednesday night, Loulou Lemon will be enshrined with Lebron "I'm taking my talents to South Beach" James in the Sports Hall of Hubris. Take a sucka that, Kesler.

It's been really unfair for the Nucks. HOw does Boychuck not get a penalty for interfence on Maser? NO HE SHOULD NOT BE SUSPENDED. What is Marchand doing punching Sedin 6 times in a row? Kesler is getting mugged!

I am confident and will go MARK MESSIER on ALL OF YOU.

VAN WILL WIN

3-2 OT Burrows winner

BOOK IT!

Negative Props.

Your whiny, diving, edamame eating, greasy, no good, biting, tire pumping ringette team deserves every bit of the beat down they received.

Fair? If Fair had anything to do with it the Blackhawks would have completed the comeback and we wouldnt have to hear this crap about the referees, the league, and the conspiracy theories.

I'll tell you what Marchand was doing punching Sedin in the face 6 times. He was playing for the Stanley Cup in the biggest game of his life. What the hell was Sedin doing just standing there and taking it? That's my question.

Lil' Wayne is basically a Canucks fan. He hopped aboard the LeBron bandwagon carrying his trumpet only to ditch at the first sign of a better party. He professes to be a huge Miami Heat fan and basically follows the team throughout the playoffs and then parties with Dirk and the boys after "his" team sh*ts the bed?

Can we get Lil Wayne to publicly support the Nucks? Get on this Wanye. You know people.

EDIT: Does anyone else find themselves nearly incapable of spelling the name "Wayne" correctly due to the absured spelling of our Dear Leader's name?

Lil' Wayne is basically a Canucks fan. He hopped aboard the LeBron bandwagon carrying his trumpet only to ditch at the first sign of a better party. He professes to be a huge Miami Heat fan and basically follows the team throughout the playoffs and then parties with Dirk and the boys after "his" team sh*ts the bed?

Can we get Lil Wayne to publicly support the Nucks? Get on this Wanye. You know people.

EDIT: Does anyone else find themselves nearly incapable of spelling the name "Wayne" correctly due to the absured spelling of our Dear Leader's name?

I read that L'il Wayne was recording MTV Unplugged earlier in the night and flew in for the party and left again in the AM. That's gangster.

I have this problem spelling Wayne - Wanye. My spellcheck on my computer is no help, having accepted Wanye as a real word in 2008.

Sorry but Van canucks will win if not tonight, for sure the 7th game... I am an Oilers fan first but not like most of Canada, I have nothing against Vancouver Canucks as winners. They are a better team in regular season and they will be in the finals.

Sorry but Van canucks will win if not tonight, for sure the 7th game... I am an Oilers fan first but not like most of Canada, I have nothing against Vancouver Canucks as winners. They are a better team in regular season and they will be in the finals.

Somebody photoshop Roberto Luongo's face onto "the most interesting man in the world" and caption it "I may not always sh!t the bed, but when I do, it's in the playoffs". I would do it myself, but am not computer savvy enough.

Somebody photoshop Roberto Luongo's face onto "the most interesting man in the world" and caption it "I may not always sh!t the bed, but when I do, it's in the playoffs". I would do it myself, but am not computer savvy enough.

Wanye, great line. I too recognize a d/b from a mile away... And I hate basketball... But had to watch the last 4 n half minutes to see this go down.

BTW
Mark Cuban is another huge d/b... But good for Dirk.

Here's to game 7 in the cup finals.

I have heard Cuban is a bit of a tool but I think he is improving. He refused interviews in the latter stages of the playoffs which would have been unheard of a few years ago. I also respect him for his love of blowing cash on sports teams. I hope he eventually gets the Cubs.